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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Am Montag 03 Januar 2011, um 04:13:56 schrieb Mario Behling:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> would be great if you could host the videos on your server and if we
> could embed them somehow in the lubuntu site. Unfortunately the videos
> are currently with car advertisements when I view them. I already had
> some discussions with Leszek about this as blip also offers adsfree
> videos. It might be a solution if you host the videos, so we can offer
> adfree videos. I am not totally against advertising, if it is for a
> dedicated purpose. Particularly though, I find forced advertising
> before a video pretty annoying. Just reminds me of boring TV times.
> 

Btw. the videos are now linked directly from the lubuntu.net site. So there 
shouldn't be ads anymore. 

> Ciao,
> 
> Mario
> 
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hiyas leszek,
> > hopefully by the end of January I will have the ubuntu server installed
> > on my friends dedicated server. If traffic on blip.tv is an issue, then
> > I will transfer them over to the new server. I'm also sure that I have
> > video conversion program on piglet if flv is causing people problems.
> > Regards,
> > Phill.
> > 
> > On 2 January 2011 15:29, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:43:54 -0000, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> Am Sonntag 02 Januar 2011, um 00:41:22 schrieb Yorvyk:
> >>>> Interesting idea raised by now3d in IRC
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hi there.  Could I ask if you would consider switching the Adobe Flash
> >>>> videos to be in the Ogg Theora format and use <video> tag? I looked at
> >>>> http://lubuntu.net/ but all the videos wouldn't play from Firefox on
> >>>> Ubuntu.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Not sure how much work this would entail.
> >>>> Unfortunately my line kept dropping and I didn't get to talk about
> >>>> them not
> >>>> playing in FF.
> >>> 
> >>> The newer ones should run fine in Chromium with
> >>> chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
> >>> installed. The older ones are unfortunately only avaiable as flv files.
> >>> The new videos from 2011 will be encoded in webm (which should be
> >>> playable in
> >>> every browser [FF 4.0 is needed]) + h264 (m4v as blip.tv now converts
> >>> automatically to it). As for the video tag. As far as I know chromium
> >>> is loading and caching those videos when you add them with the video
> >>> tag. That
> >>> would produce high traffic on the server. (blip.tv in that case) So a
> >>> link to
> >>> the file would be better I think. Clicking the link should then open up
> >>> the
> >>> video in the internal browser video player.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the info Leszek.  I just download and play the in Lifrea or
> >> Opera and haven't had any problems.  I don't know what the problem in FF
> >> is (codec missing?) as they work for.
> >> 
> >> Once again thank you for making these screen-casts, as they are very
> >> useful.
> >> 
> >> Happy New Year to you.:)
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Steve (Yorvyk)
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> >> 
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